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BRCA in BC Education Session: Preventing Cancer: Genetic Testing for Personalized Nutrition in People at Elevated Risk
May 16 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Join us for the education session titled ‘Preventing Cancer: Genetic Testing for Personalized Nutrition in People at Elevated Risk.’ Our guest speaker will be Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy PhD, Professor at the University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Nutrigenomics. Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy is a Professor at the University of Toronto, as well as Founder & Chief Science Officer of Nutrigenomix Inc. He obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto and postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. Dr. El-Sohemy has over 200 publications and has given more than 300 invited talks around the world. He is the recipient of several awards for research excellence by the Canadian Nutrition Society, American College of Nutrition, and American Nutrition Association.
Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy will discuss how nutrition interacts with our genes and nutritional advice for BRCA carriers to reduce the risk of cancer over the lifespan. He has published studies with Dr. Steven Narod on the role of gene-diet interactions in BRCA carriers, which he will refer to during the session. The session will include a 50-minute presentation followed by a Q&A period.
Registration closes Tuesday, May 14th at 12:00 pm PT.